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717 Emergency Action Plans
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Plan Review, Coordination and Update

Once you have completed your emergency action plan, review it carefully with your employees and post it in an area where all employees will have access to it.

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Once you have completed your emergency action plan, review it carefully with your employees.

Make sure to review with each employee upon initial assignment those parts of the EAP and Fire Prevention Plan (FPP) that the employee must know to protect him or herself in the event of an emergency. Remember, the EAP and FPP go hand in hand. You may want to combine the two plans into one document.

The written plans must be available to the employees and kept at the workplace. For employers with 10 or fewer employees, the plans may be communicated orally.

Knowledge Check Choose the best answer for the question.

5-1. According to OSHA, a written EAP must be kept at the workplace unless the company has _____ or fewer employees.